The Administration Centre - 42.292 is a living archive of "communicationism",
of the postal rituals and communicative gestures of the mail-art netland/
/it is based on the democratic principle that "every" piece of
mail (envelopes, postcards, letters,...) is meaningful in the socio-cultural
context of the mail-art circuit - so every artist or non-artist is treated
with the same care - the idealistic purpose was and is to store up the entire
narration of what happened by classifying "all" the results of
mail-activities received from the eternal netland - but every archive will
tell the true story of its own web.

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1995, the whole collection comprises original works and/or information
of (plus or minus) 5.000 networkers from over 60 countries - the classification
is in alphabetical order and per country - every artist has one or more
files and/or box files (if a lot of works are present)/ /individual numbers
refer to an accurate index-system, so that everything can be found easily.

Over the years a lot of mail-artists and those interested came to Wellen
for a visit at the administration centre - from abroad there were artists
such as Banana, Baroni, Bloch, Devens, Dresscher, Dudek-Durer, Formentini,
Graf Haufen, Held jr., Janssen, Olbrich, Oliveira, Perneczky, Ruch, Stake,
Taylor, Ti-mar, Kustermann, Lor
Enzi, van de Hoef, van der Heyden, van Dijk, and so on - several students
used documents of the archive for research.